Create solution’s setting file for export-import purposes (Power Automate + Dataverse)

When I published this blog post about Power Automate Deployment (manual), the great - Bill Blancett gave suggestions regarding the solution's import setting file that we can use if we want to import the solution using CI/CD or using Power Platform Tools CLI (you need to make sure you install this on your machine): TL/DR …

Learn about Power Automate Deployment

Today we will learn basic knowledge regarding the Power Automate deployment model. As you know, when we want to deploy from Dev to UAT, we need those components inside Solution. The basic components of the Power Automate (Flow) and how we are importing it are like the below image: By default, when we create Power …

Power Automate: (Experiment) Migrate Dataverse Legacy to Latest Dataverse Connector

Thinking about how to migrate Dataverse Legacy to the new Dataverse connector as the depreciation date coming? Here is how I migrate it (remembered to always back up your flows before trying it and do it with your own risk). The easiest way to know the difference is by creating the same exact flow with …

Dynamics CRM: Create API for Sending Translated Message To In-Apps Notification

Today, we will learn how to utilize Azure Cognitive Service to help us translate the message to English, create a PowerAutomate Cloud Flow as an API, and push it to Model-Driven-Apps Apps Notification (Preview).  System Design One of the scenarios that I can think of is we can implement this to make the feedback from the customer resolved as fast …

[Exploration] Dynamics CRM Azure-aware plug-in + Azure Queue + Power Automate

Do you know the Azure-aware plugin? In short, we can create a simple plugin that invokes Azure Service Bus that enables us to do the Publisher-Subscriber model. In this blog post, we will try to make Azure Service Bus, Dynamics CRM Service Endpoint, and CRM Plugin for creating the queue. While for the processing part (subscriber), we will …

How To Consume Microsoft Graph Using Power Automate

Microsoft Graph is a collection of APIs that enable us to access data in the Microsoft Cloud platform. There are lots of useful APIs that we can play with to connect the dot from 1 application through another. For example, we can get data for Users, manage Calendars, etc. Today, we will learn how to consume …

Get Environment Variable in a Flow using Custom Web API

Inspired by a blog post by Natraj about "Using Custom API as a trigger for Flow" that you can find here, I am thinking to create a sample collection of Custom Web API that all people can make use of/learn the code (the code design might not be suitable for you, but I open for discussion for …

Dynamics CRM Webhook vs Power Automate Cloud Flow vs Plugin

Do you know Dynamics CRM Webhooks? The definition from the official documentation: CRM Webhooks is a feature which enables CRM to call other URL using HTTP pattern with publish/subscribe pattern. Which, I do not quite agree with the definition because we still can register the plugin in Sync mode instead of Async. Meaning, if the URL …

Dynamics CRM: Integrate to Other Source System Easier using Power Automate

I have a lot of experience integrating Dynamics CRM with the other source systems that required a lot of code to be built in the plugin. We need to connect to Web API > parse the response > mapping the response > then verify the result. If you ask me to do it in the …

Dynamics CRM 365: Build Automation for Create/Update RESX WebResource + Power Automate

In this post, we already make the basics of the exe program for updating Resx WebResource and being called with Power Automate Desktop. Now we will continue to extend our customization. Power Automate Desktop enables us to make automation for our local computer. For instance, we have a Virtual Machine that we host in Microsoft …